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Tuesday 16 May 2023
IC design houses have diverse perspectives on China demand
While smartphone-related IC design houses continue to see sluggish demand from China and are generally bleak about market prospects for the rest of the year, other chip suppliers...
Tuesday 16 May 2023
PCB firm GCE to set up new plant in Thailand
Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE), which specializes in high-layer count (HLC) PCBs for servers and PCs, has disclosed plans to set up a new plant in Thailand.
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Suppliers less confident about initial volume of new iPhones
Chip and component suppliers in the iPhone supply chain are less confident about the initial stocking volume of Apple's forthcoming smartphones, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 16 May 2023
MediaTek to adopt Nvidia GPU in flagship mobile chip
MediaTek is expected to integrate an Nvidia GPU into its next-generation flagship mobile processor as early as 2024, according to industry sources.
Monday 15 May 2023
Why was Oppo's self-developed chip project canceled? Taiwan's supply chain offers its take
Oppo's self-developed chip division Zeku announced that it is ceasing operations, shocking the mobile phone chip industry. Supply chain sources in Taiwan have offered three possible...
Monday 15 May 2023
Scalable business model offers sustainable growth in India, Dimerco says
India is on many companies' lists for alternative production bases as it has become the world's most populous country. According to international logistics company Dimerco, adopting...
Monday 15 May 2023
Samsung, Tesla leaders met for collaboration, including on autonomous vehicles
Samsung Electronics announced on May 14 that its executive chairman Lee Jae-yong met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the US last week. The meeting concerned potential cooperation between...
Monday 15 May 2023
SMIC at full capacity in 28/40nm nodes, buoyed by urgent Chinese orders
Zhao Haijun, the co-CEO of SMIC, expects the company to see 5–7% quarter-over-quarter growth in 2Q23 sales as urgent orders from Chinese clients drove capacity utilization of...
Monday 15 May 2023
Himax sees challenging 2Q23
Dispaly driver IC company Himax Technologies has warned of a challenging second quarter in terms of both sales and gross margin, but believes this will be a short-term phenomenon...
Monday 15 May 2023
Qualcomm, MediaTek show mixed sentiments about Oppo disbanding IC design unit
China's leading smartphone maker Oppo has just abruptly disbanded its chip design subsidiary, Zeku, sending shockwaves through the mobile phone supply chain and indicating the company...
Monday 15 May 2023
Taiwanese PCB supply chain expands capacity across Asia, with Indian focus
PCB production used to be heavily concentrated in Kunshan, China and Taiwan. However, recent changes in the global economy and politics, as well as growing geopolitical conflicts,...
Monday 15 May 2023
FocalTech sees 1Q23 perform better than expected
A pull-in of short lead-time orders for handset applications led to a better-than-expected first quarter for FocalTech Systems, according to the display driver IC (DDI) specialist.
Monday 15 May 2023
Qualcomm, MediaTek shifting competition to computing, auto apps
With handset APs still in sluggish demand and new-spec networking chips not yet well adopted, the competition between Qualcomm and MediaTek is gradually shifting to the realm of automotive...
Monday 15 May 2023
India's RISC-V startup InCore receives funding from Sequoia Capital
India-based RISC-V fabless chip startup InCore Semiconductors received funding from Sequoia Capital India, the second deal that the venture capital firm invested in India's semiconductor...
Friday 12 May 2023
Silicon Catalyst announces "Silicon Startups Contest" in partnership with Arm
On May 10, 2023, Silicon Catalyst, the world's only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating semiconductor solutions, announced a "Silicon Startups Contest" in partnership with...